April 1, 2009, Stuttgart, Germany: TES Electronic Solutions (“TES”), the global electronics design and manufacturing services company announces that NEC Electronics Corporation has signed a license agreement for TES’s D/AVE-3D Graphics IP for use in its multifunction SoC targeting automotive applications.

D/AVE-3D supports industry standard OpenGL-ES 1.1 and OpenVG 1.01 Graphics API. The IP core has been specifically designed to handle rendering of automotive graphics like 3D MAP, dashboard clusters and multimedia user interfaces. D/AVE-3D is among the smallest cores available in its segment.

The new license agreement represents an extension of the existing relationship between TES and NEC Electronics that had previously comprised TES’s D/AVE-2D technology.

Juergen Zeller, Senior VP Design Services & Technology, TES says: "NEC Electronics is one of the top suppliers of silicon solutions in the automotive market. With proven success and a highly competitive line card of silicon solutions, NEC Electronics now benefits from the expertise of TES high performance application specific 3D Graphics solution. With complete end-to-end solutions in Graphics, TES has been able to deliver services in IP customization, OpenGL ES drivers, UI & MAP Applications accelerating the delivery of solutions to NEC Electronics’ customers".